Qwen3.5-9B vs Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
8.8 B
Context
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30d
7.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3.5-9B | Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 9.7 B | 8.8 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration | Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration |
| Context length | 262,144 | 262,144 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 6,366,157 | 7,092,774 |
| Downloads all time | 75.3 M | 79.7 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-02-27 | 2025-10-11 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.17 | $0.25 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.25 | $0.75 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.42 | $1.00 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — | $0.12 |
| AA Intelligence Index | — | — |
| AA Coding Index | 28.7 | — |
| AA Agentic Index | 1.2 | — |
| Max output tokens | 235,929 | 235,929 |
| API providers | 6 | 1 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen3.5-9B
$0.42
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
$1.00
Qwen3.5-9B is 2.4× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
20.2 M4.5 M
Qwen3.5-9B
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct · fp16
21.1 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3.5-9B · fp16
23.2 GB / 24 GB